Opinion

Still, like Goodall, other scientists, advocacy groups and lawmakers argue that slowing population growth could be key to fighting climate change. The United Nations Population Fund's 2009 annual report links slower population growth to reduced greenhouse-gas emissions. "The whole world has been talking about carbon credits, carbon trading and emissions targets. But not enough has been said about the

Since consumption includes the consumption of food, the first requirement to survival, it follows that we must face the question of our food intake, not just the purchase of chinese flat TV screens and other current delights. It is easy enough for any intelligent person to give up some luxuries. (holidays in Provence. A second

Cultures and their religions produce overpopulation in the 21st century.  Hindus, Muslims, Catholics, Buddhists and other religions refuse to tear themselves away from 2,000 and 3,000 year anachronistic doctrines that dictate unlimited growth.  They choose human misery on an unimaginable scale rather than sensible birth control and family planning.   While India, at 1.16 billion continues to

    I have a different opinion on the age dependency ratio. I see it as a shining beacon of success. People are working for shorter periods of their life. We as a group are finally taking some of our productivity gains of the past half-century in the form of leisure time.   Whether or

  Tony Burke was not able to sidestep discussion of total population numbers for Australia when talking to Steve Visard on Melbourne’s MRT1377 on the 18th of May about his recent “Sustainable Population Report”. Steve really hammered home the impossibility of planning for our nation’s future without having population targets in mind and clearly showed

ENVIRONMENT Minister Malcolm Turnbull estimates that by 2015, the ban on incandescent light bulbs will save 4 million tonnes of CO2 from going into the atmosphere annually. He doesn’t mention that by then, another 54 million tonnes per year will be emitted as the result of population growth. Net migration was up again last year

We should start out by making it clear that we have no issue with anyone that prefers living in a high-density area or with the free market construction of buildings to fulfill this preference. The issue we have is with the enforced imposition of high density housing upon the bulk of Australians that don’t want

Tony Jones opened by saying that Mark Latham had belled the cat by pointing out that you can't propose to limit population unless you can limit immigration. So why wouldn't the government promise to limit immigration?  Jones to his credit kept the debate on population and immigration rather than sliding across onto asylum-seekers in the